…but I nevertheless take the force of this Rocky Mountain News letter writer’s point: The Killing off of Captain America parallels the downward spiral our country is in.  The patriotism that used to mean love of flag and country is quickly disappearing.  But have no fear, this heroic Marvel comic character will be back…this time as Captain Americana! Of course, gone will be the trademark winged hat and red white

Red State has a new post up about Plamegate, and of course people are saying, “that Gen. Hayden could easily confirm or deny any aspect of her story, and he chose to confirm the aspects that support Plame’s account of what happened – and her status as a covert employee.” But if you go view the matter, you’ll find that when Toensing rebuts Waxman’s are you saying Hayden’s a liar?

How well is the new security plan doing in Baghdad so far?  Apparently well enough that ABC News, USA Today, and the BBC had to join forces to produce biased reports of “lost hope,” based on an already biased German poll of Iraqi public opinion. What are the major flaws in the poll and the reporting thereon?  Let me count the ways.

I’m around.  Spent most of yesterday putting together patio furniture and baby sitting for one of the neighbors.  Today I have to put together a bench, a couple end tables, and one of those taut-netted pitchback machines (so I can break in a couple of baseball gloves). On the plus side, once I’m finished putting all the furniture together, I’ll have a place outside to set up a computer.  Next

In the past week, Glenn Greenwald(s) opened a new front in his war against the Bush Administration and Americans who support the global war on Islamic jihadism.  He unabashedly argues that Vice-President Dick Cheney thinks like Osama bin Laden and that commenters at Little Green Footballs openly supported Al Qaeda assassination plots. Greenwald(s)’s hypocritical bad-faith as to the latter has been amply demonstrated. His latest unhinged attacks, however, raise the

Fired San Diego U.S. attorney Carol Lam notified the Justice Department that she intended to execute search warrants on a high-ranking CIA official as part of a corruption probe the day before a Justice Department official sent an e-mail that said Lam needed to be fired, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Sunday. Feinstein, D-Calif., said the timing of the e-mail suggested that Lam’s dismissal may have been connected to the

So much depends On an adult diaper When you’re driving 500 miles To abduct the presumed lover Of your astronaut colleague.

French President Jacques Chirac told Israel at the start of the war in Lebanon that France would support an Israeli assault on Syria, it was reported on Sunday. Army Radio reported that in the message, which was delivered by Chirac to Israel via a secret channel, the French president suggested that Israel invade Damascus and topple the regime of Bashar Assad. In exchange, Chirac assured Israel full French support for